Friday, February 20, 2015

...At least three bills - one in the House and two in the Senate - have been filed to eliminate the state's nearly six-decade ban on carrying what are more properly called automatic knives. The impetus for repeal comes from OK2A, a Second Amendment advocacy organization that has supported much of the gun-rights legislation enacted in recent years. "It's a combination of principle and a matter of common sense," said OK2A President Tim Gillespie of Earlsboro. "If we're letting people carry guns, it makes no sense not to let them carry switchblade knives.

Some slopes are more slippery than others, but they have one thing in common -- they all run downhill.